Railroad construction



J. GAZO.

RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 16, 1920.

1,401,068 Patented Dec. 20, 1 921.

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I. GAZO.

RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED AUGJS I920.

1,401,068. Patented Dec. 20, 1921.

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INVENT UNITED STATES FATENT OFFICE.

JOHN GAZO, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed August 16, 1920. Serial No. 403,635.

A further ob ect is the provision of means for connecting the meeting ends of rails that comprise pin members which'enter the Com fronting ends of the rails, certain of said pins being spring influenced, so that angle sections, such as are employed on railway crossings, may be thus effectively connected.

to the heads thereof and retained in positive alinement.

The foregoing, and other objects which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, may be accomplished by a construction, combination and opera tive arrangement of parts, such as is disclosed by the drawings.

In the drawings V Figure 1 is a plan view of the rails of a crossing constructed and connected in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a greatly enlarged sectional view approximately on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view approximately on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. V

Fig. 4% is a perspective view of one of the sections, looking toward the end thereof to be connected with the other sections.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the second crossing section.

It will be noted as the nature of my invention is fully understood, that rails constructed, and connected. in accordance with my invention provide a substantially unitary structure which, however, are permitted the necessary expansion and contraction. Worn rail sections may be readily removed by passing a hack saw through the space at the confronting ends thereof and sawing the pins which connect the rail sections.

The crossing illustrated in Figs. 1 and 4 of the drawings has the rails, at the outer ends thereof provided with sockets 18 which receive the pins 19 that are arranged in sockets of the main rails. The crossing, as is usual, comprises the grooved members that provide the inner and outer guardrails as wellas the tread surfaces for the wheels of the rolling stock and the passage for the rims of the wheels thereof. In the showing of the drawings, the crossing is constructed of two sections, but may be, of course, constructed of any desired number of such sections. Each of the sections includes right angular flanges that have their confronting ends provided with alining sockets 20 which receive therein pins 21. The pins in one of the series of sockets on one of the ends of one or both of the sections are comparatively short, so that the same are fully received in the sockets when the longer pins are received in the sockets in the angular extension of the section. These last mentioned pins are infiuenced by springs so that when the first mentioned ends are connected, the springs will influence the last mentioned pins to force the same into the registering sockets.

The sockets in which the pins are received are of a less depth than the other sockets.

It is thought that the foregoing descrip-' tion, when taken in connection with the drawings, will fully set forth the construction and advantages of the improvement without further detail description.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim, is z.

A railway crossing comprising a plurality of rail sections having their confronting ends provided with spaced relatively long sockets, grooved flanges extending at right angles from said rail sections and provided with spaced relatively short alining sockets in their inner ends, relatively short pins engaging the sockets in the grooved flanges, and relatively long springinfluenced pins engaging the sockets in said rail sections.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOHN GAZO. 

